The U.K.- U.S. Symposium on Frontiers of Science
The Royal Society - U.S. National Academy of Sciences
June 20-22, 2004
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Sessions:
- Carbon Nanotubes
- Drug Design: Hitting the Target
- Emerging Infections
- Impact of the Genome Sequence
- Life in Extreme Environments
- Networks
- Stem Cells
- The First Stars
Carbon Nanotubes
Organizers: Greg Laughlin and Neil Ferguson
Chair:
Marc Bockrath, California Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Jeremy Sloan, Oxford University
Andrea Ferrari, Cambridge University
Drug Design: Hitting the Target
Organizers: Mike Watkinson, Anne Donaldson, and Shawn McLaughlin
Chair:
Andy Whiting, University of Durham
Speakers:
Bradley S. Moore, University of Arizona
Henry E. Pelish, Harvard University
Emerging Infections
Organizers: Neil Ferguson and Shawn Mclaughlin
Chair:
Marc Lipsitch, Harvard University
Speakers:
Eddie C. Holmes, University of Oxford
Nathan Wolfe, Johns Hopkins University
Impact of the Genome Sequence
Organizers: Anne Donaldson and Renee Reijo
Chair:
Neil Hall, The Sanger Institute
Speakers:
Julie Ahringer, The Wellcome Trust
Michael Olivier, Medical College of Wisconsin
Life in Extreme Environments
Organizers: Greg Laughlin and Mike Watkinson
Chair:
David Smith, University of Rhode Island
Speakers:
Victoria Orphan, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Peter Wellsbury, Cardiff University
Networks
Organizers: Greg Laughlin, Neil Ferguson
Chair:
Duncan Watts, Columbia University
Speakers:
Matt Keeling, University of Warwick
Alvis Brazma, EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute
Stem Cells
Organizers: Maeve Caldwell and Renee Reijo
Chair:
Siddharthan Chandran, Cambridge University
Speakers:
Theo Palmer, Stanford University
Su-Chun Zhang, University of Wisconsin
The First Stars
Organizers: Neil Cornish, Greg Laughlin and Neil Ferguson
Chair:
Tom Abel, Pennsylvania State University
Speakers:
Greg Bryan, Oxford University
Eline Tolstoy, Oxford University/Kapteyn Institute
